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Hurricane katrina aftermath on people1/22/2024 ![]() ![]() Investigations into the reasons behind the storm’s disproportionately devastating effects on lower-income African American residents reveal the extent of Hurricane Katrina’s social impact. ![]() These trailers were found to contain dangerous amounts of formaldehyde gas, and posed health risks to residents. Many residents were put up in one of FEMA’s 45,000 temporary housing units after the storm, a project that lasted until 2012. A general increase in home values, poverty deconcentration efforts, and the demolition of four prominent public housing projects made it difficult for many of the most affected to find housing in the city. Impacted areas were rapidly gentrified, and much of the city’s growth in the years following Katrina was not a result of original residents returning, but of new people moving in. These numbers are higher among more vulnerable populations.Īs reconstruction began after the storm, many residents were priced out of their neighborhoods. Large percentages of children and adults displaced by Hurricane Katrina experienced mental health issues as a direct result, including PTSD, depression, and anxiety. The majority of those who lost their homes or who were otherwise displaced were African Americans living in the city’s lower-income areas. An estimated 95,000 New Orleans residents lost their jobs in the 10 months following the hurricane, and hundreds of thousands of homes were flooded. Thousands were left homeless, and the population of New Orleans was reduced by half. ![]() history, behind hurricanes Katrina and Harvey.Of the 1.5 million Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama residents that evacuated for Hurricane Katrina, approximately 40% did not return. That makes it the third-costliest hurricane in U.S. Hurricane Maria is estimated to have caused about $90 billion in damage to Puerto Rico. "This total includes both direct and indirect deaths since it was nearly impossible to differentiate between the two types of fatalities for this event," the report read. Authors attributed that number to the island territory’s government, which used a study from George Washington University’s Milken Institute School of Public Health to determine the number of deaths. In that original report, the death toll in Puerto Rico was 65, with a caveat that the number was "highly uncertain." The updated report issued Wednesday dramatically increased the number of fatalities in Puerto Rico to 2,975. Hurricane Maria survivor, uncle of FOX Weather's Nicole Valdes, reflects 5 years laterįOX Weather Correspondent Nicole Valdes introduces us to her uncle Rafael Cintron, who reflects on Hurricane Maria five years later. Hurricane Harvey in 2017 comes in second at $148.8 billion. That cements its position as the costliest U.S. Adjusted to 2022 dollars, Katrina caused an estimated $186.3 billion in damage. According to the report, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s National Centers for Environmental Information estimated Katrina caused $125 billion in damage in 2005 dollars. It ranks third behind the Galveston, Texas, hurricane of 1900 (at least 8,000 fatalities) and the Lake Okeechobee, Florida, hurricane of 1928 (more than 2,500 fatalities).Īnother adjustment to Hurricane Katrina’s official record is the estimated cost of damage caused by the storm. ![]() The adjustment does not change the fact that Katrina is one of the deadliest storms to ever make landfall on the mainland U.S. "Presumably, most of the deaths in Louisiana were caused by the widespread storm surge-induced flooding and its miserable aftermath in the New Orleans area," the report read in part. A member of a search and rescue team being hosed down with bleach and soap after Hurricane Katrina to protect against toxins and bacteria like Vibrio Vulnificus. ![]()
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